Ivica Dacic will attend The National Prayer Breakfast

Washington, Feb. 06, 2010, (Serbia Today) - Ivica Dačić and other representatives of Serbia will attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington hosted by the U.S. President Barack Obama. The traditional event, which serves to gather the U.S. President, congressmen and officials from all over the world in “prayer for America”, will be held at the Hilton Hotel.
About 3,000 guests, among whom Serbia’s Interior Minister Dačić, Leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica Drašković, will attend the gathering which is held on the first Thursday of February each year. Invitations have also been sent to Belgrade Mufti Muhamed Jusuf Spahić and Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić, who will not be going to Washington this time. G17 Plus official Vlajko Senić will also attend the gathering, stating that the Prayer Breakfast was a good opportunity to talk to the representatives of the U.S. administration. “There are wide possibilities for talks due to a large number of guests from other countries. I spoke with representatives in charge of the Balkans and Serbia at the State Department, and I will also meet the Pentagon representatives in charge of Serbia,” Senić said, and added that he was “trying to motivate congressmen and senators to come to Serbia and see that they had a strong and reliable partner there”.
“The most important impression is to see Serbia as a potential leader in the region because this role can be achieved and it depends only on us,” he said. Obama and another speaker will address the participants at the beginning of the event. The tradition of the National Prayer Breakfast was established more than 50 years ago, during U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, who, with a group of congressmen, came up with the idea to organize a gathering which would have a prayer for America as its core.